Single Point Mooring (SPM) is a type of offshore facility that is used for the loading and unloading of oil and gas tankers in the sea. In Iran, it is briefly called “floating buoy”. The present study discussed floating type, fixed to the seabed with mooring chain. The mooring chain of SPM, which is considered one of the important parameters of its design, will be evaluated with reg...

Voxel based analyses (VBA), also known as Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM), are commonly used for exploratory analysis of functional or structural neuroimaging data. The popular technique is relatively easy to use and can survey the entire brain but the method yields inconsistent results (Kanaan 2005). It is difficult to challenge the validity of published works and review submissions becau...

Polyamines are absolute requirements for cell growth. When in excess, Pseudomonas aeruginosa possesses six γ-glutamylpolyamine synthetases (GPSs) encoded by the pauA1-pauA7 genes to initiate polyamine catabolism. Recently, the pauA2 mutant was reported to lose the capability to grow on spermine (Spm) and spermidine (Spd) as sole carbon and nitrogen sources. Although this mutant grew normally in...

This paper presents a simulation study for military land equipment operational availability (OA). A discrete event simulation model was developed within this study to support the analysis of the effect of several maintenance regimes on OA namely Corrective Maintenance (CM), Scheduled Preventive Maintenance (SPM), and Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM). The model was implemented using the ARENA e...

Objective : The purpose of this study was to estimate the levels of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in ambient air within Mukula mine and the potential risks to mineworkers and inhabitants of the adjoining Mukula community's health. Methods : An SPM was used to measure the levels of particulate matter (PM10) in and around the mining site. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to dete...

Population fluctuations are often driven by an interplay between intrinsic population processes and extrinsic environmental forcing. To investigate this interplay, we analyzed fluctuations in coastal phytoplankton concentration in relation to the tidal cycle. Time series of chlorophyll fluorescence, suspended particulate matter (SPM), salinity and temperature were obtained from an automated mea...

Polyamine oxidase (PAO) is a flavin adenine dinucleotide-dependent enzyme involved in polyamine catabolism. Animal PAOs oxidize spermine (Spm), spermidine (Spd), and/or their acetyl derivatives to produce H2O2, an aminoaldehyde, and Spd or putrescine, respectively, thus being involved in a polyamine back-conversion pathway. On the contrary, plant PAOs that have been characterized to date oxidiz...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Previous FDG-PET studies have indicated neuroplasticity in the adult auditory cortex in cases of postlingual deafness. In the mature brain, auditory deprivation decreased neuronal activity in primary auditory and auditory-related cortices. In order to reevaluate these issues, we used statistical analytic software, namely a three-dimensional stereotaxic region of interest temp...

The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is central in response to damage induced by environmental carcinogens. Efficiency of this pathway, probably genetically determined, may modulate individual risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) as well as second primary malignancy (SPM) after the index tumor. We hypothesized that common non-synonymous and regulatory ...

Despite a real risk of overturning, for the Self-Propelled agricultural Machinery (SPM) the ROPS approach to protect the driver is rather recent. Due to the several SPM categories available on the market, characterized by very different mass, dimension and working functions, the fitting of a ROPS and consequently the check of its strength is complicated. The SPM could be preliminarily divided i...